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Hall and Woodford Win 2026 Economics Prize

In 2026, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford received a major award. It is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. This award is known as the Nobel Prize in economics. Both economists earned their doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The prize recognizes their research on using government policy to encourage economic…

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